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XLE
7 articles on this site analyse XLE — 3 of them head-on.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-06-30XLE reports 24 positions, but the weights make it behave like about 9.9 equally weighted ones. Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing — see what this measure does not tell you and the full table.
The same filing says what kind of price those positions carry: 100% of XLE is held at a quoted market price, across 2 issuer countries . Comparisons across every fund are in the valuation table, and what a low share does and does not mean is worth reading before drawing a conclusion from it.
Every filing since 2019
28Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, XLE went from behaving like 8.8 equally weighted positions to 9.9 — 13% more, while its top ten went from 76.43% to 75.54% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 24 | 9.9 | 75.54% | 22.67% |
| 2026-03-31 | 26 | 9.3 | 75.77% | 23.77% |
| 2025-12-31 | 24 | 9.2 | 75.63% | 23.7% |
| 2025-09-30 | 26 | 9.4 | 76.1% | 22.77% |
| 2025-06-30 | 25 | 10.3 | 73.21% | 22.85% |
| 2025-03-31 | 27 | 9.8 | 73.83% | 23.33% |
| 2024-12-31 | 25 | 9.9 | 74.62% | 23.08% |
| 2024-09-30 | 26 | 9.8 | 75.02% | 23.34% |
| 2024-06-30 | 25 | 9.5 | 74.73% | 23.18% |
| 2024-03-31 | 26 | 9.7 | 76.2% | 22.8% |
| 2023-12-31 | 26 | 9.6 | 75.59% | 22.4% |
| 2023-09-30 | 25 | 9.2 | 73.92% | 23.47% |
| 2023-06-30 | 26 | 9.3 | 73.59% | 22.76% |
| 2023-03-31 | 26 | 9.1 | 75% | 23.04% |
| 2022-12-31 | 26 | 9 | 74.47% | 22.85% |
| 2022-09-30 | 23 | 9 | 75.99% | 22.99% |
| 2022-06-30 | 22 | 8.4 | 76.43% | 23.98% |
| 2022-03-31 | 23 | 8.8 | 75.4% | 22.23% |
| 2021-12-31 | 24 | 8.7 | 75.97% | 22.7% |
| 2021-09-30 | 24 | 8.9 | 76.54% | 22.67% |
| 2021-06-30 | 24 | 8.6 | 77.02% | 23.73% |
| 2021-03-31 | 25 | 8.5 | 77.77% | 22.35% |
| 2020-12-31 | 27 | 8.3 | 77.71% | 23.1% |
| 2020-09-30 | 28 | 8.2 | 79.06% | 22.89% |
| 2020-06-30 | 28 | 8.2 | 78.8% | 23.04% |
| 2020-03-31 | 29 | 8 | 79.57% | 23.56% |
| 2019-12-31 | 30 | 9.1 | 75.23% | 22.32% |
| 2019-09-30 | 30 | 8.8 | 76.43% | 22.76% |
One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.
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